26th May 2009
Leaders in the making gathering:
- Still waiting on RMIT passwords to log in.
- E5 is not a curriculum planner but a reflective practice tool.
- Looking at growth points and learning needs of cohorts of children.
- Must be group planning in your learning teams – being deliberate in sharing expertise together
- Conversations are not only about a conversion but a connection to come out with a positive disposition in developing an elegant outcome - challenging reflection about what we are doing and how we can improve what we are doing – this become a characteristics that defines the new process of the culture we create.
- Looking at our own schools about the readiness of taking on E5 within the school
- Whenever there’s a change there is a destabilisation
- Reflection “in and on” not reaction
- Be aware of rational to emotional
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Strategies: Covey’s 8th Habit - “You work on your circle of influence” – do what your doing exceptionally well. And you have a circle of concern around it - abandoning the emotion to focusing your energy on things that you CAN have a positive effect on.

Supportive manner - people believe that they want to work together.

“Help you to discuss an entry point for the E5 model at the school level”

Suggestion is to do a ‘Learning Walk ‘ in another school with a specific focus – i.e.: looking at how team meetings are run, another focus could be analysing how the ell being program be more effective to ready youngsters to access schooling in senior years to minimise suspension and other difficult challenging issues of disconnectedness.


Workshop must show something of a work in progress – suggestion is we use screen dumps of wiki space and turn into a PowerPoint!

Next meeting - Tuesday 14th July 2009 @ Maiden Gully Primary School - 4pm